Monday, May 26, 2014

Dear Helle - Solo exhibition at Immigrant Museum Denmark

‘Dear Helle’ is the title of
Amir Zainorin’s solo exhibition at the Immigrant Museum in Farum, Denmark.

Helle or her full name,Helle Thorning-Schmid is the Prime Minister
of Denmark, a political leader for people of different background and cultures.

In this exhibition, Amir made
an installation with two big portraits of Helle, one is a portrait of the Prime
Minister by herself and the one is the famous ‘ selfie’ portrait of her
together with American President Obama and the Prime Minister of UK, David
Cameroun.

This installation is made of
only postcards and pins, which are installed straight to the museum wall.Prior to the installation, Amir has been
collecting postcards from the public with messages addressed to Helle. The
people who took part were asked to write about anything that was on their mind.
They came from different backgrounds such as the immigrants, asylum seekers and
school children.

Amir has used over 2500 pins
and about 2000 pieces of postcards for this installation. He said that he likes
the fact that the work is there for only a period of time. It gives this notion
of things being ‘temporary’, that everything in this world does not last forever,
like a man, a building, an empire or like art itself.

The exhibition can be viewed
at the Immigrant Museum, Farum Denmark from May 15 – August 29 2014.

During the
course of the exhibition, the public is invited to write postcards to Helle and
stick them to the museum wall. At the end of the exhibition period, Amir will
personally delivered the written postcards to her.